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30 years ago today, the ZX Spectrum was born, and some of you still bang on about it. That's because it was brilliant and cheap (£125/£175) - much cheaper than rivals BBC Micro (£299/£399) and ...

It was the computer that introduced a generation to video gaming, helped to earn Sir Clive Sinclair a knighthood and even made programming cool: the ZX Spectrum has a lot to answer for. But when, 30 ...

The affordability of Sinclair’s revolutionary 1982 home computer let a generation of young bedroom coders make anarchic, punky games, and its hardware limitations merely fostered extra creativity ...

A former Sinclair employee explains why the company behind the iconic ZX Spectrum refused to understand its importance to a generation of gamers. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

There have been many significant days in the history of the UK games industry, but the launch of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum was arguably the first of them. I went to meet two people that helped make it ...

More than five million copies of the various ZX Spectrum computers were sold over the family's eight year lifespan, not including third-party clones. The thin Bauhaus-inspired design was sleeker than ...

I remember it like it was yesterday. I'm sitting there, in my parent's lounge, as my dad comes down the stairs with what looks like a black box. He peels back the paper sleeve to reveal a polystyrene ...

More than five million copies of the various ZX Spectrum computers were sold over the family's eight year lifespan, not including third-party clones. <link> <caption ...